Journal 10

Hardin, Kaya (2009).Many eyes, many glimpses of data. Learning & Leading with Technology, August 2009, 36.

Many Eyes, Many Glimpses of Data

This article is a short summary of a tool, Many Eyes, that can be used by educators and students alike in the classroom. I would say that it is definitely an organizational tool and just why they labeled it for math is not very clear. I suppose that since it is an excellent visualization tool for numbers it can be considered mathematic but in my opinion, it is a tool that can be used for any subject. Word clouds are a new model for representing data that I have not heard of or seen (I don’t think).

How might this tool be used for real life issue data representation?

One example that the article gives is putting the data from the rise in greenhouse gases and melting of polar ice caps into a single data representation. That would be very interesting because it would also be a cause and effect visualization for students.

Which of the multiple intelligences would this tool be good for?

Other than the linguistic or auditory approach to much of teaching, this tool could be very useful for visual-spatial and logical-mathematic intelligences. Teachers could even go so far as to attempt to recreate some representations in a 3-D form which would then help bodily-kinesthetic learners.